NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon

Who says NASA has lost interest in the moon? Along with rumours of a hovering lunar base, there are reports that the agency is considering a proposal to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit.

Researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California have confirmed that NASA is mulling over their plan to build a robotic spacecraft to grab a small asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit. The mission would cost about $2.6 billion – slightly more than NASA's Curiosity Mars rover – and could be completed by the 2020s.

Who says NASA has lost interest in the moon? Along with rumours of a hovering lunar base, there are reports that the agency is considering a proposal to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit.

Researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California have confirmed that NASA is mulling over their plan to build a robotic spacecraft to grab a small asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit. The mission would cost about $2.6 billion – slightly more than NASA's Curiosity Mars rover – and could be completed by the 2020s.

In all seriouness though, the proposed idea is to grab one that's only about 7 meters wide (so even if something went terribly wrong and it were to end up on an earth collision course which is extremely unlikely, it wouldn't do any damage anyway). [link to www.escapistmagazine.com]

Sounds a bit like the Iron Sky attack where the nazi's come to earth also dragging meteors to drop on big cities. I think it's quite effective and to have one on stand-by is just the cherry on the cake.

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Sounds a bit like the Iron Sky attack where the nazi's come to earth also dragging meteors to drop on big cities. I think it's quite effective and to have one on stand-by is just the cherry on the cake.

Who says NASA has lost interest in the moon? Along with rumours of a hovering lunar base, there are reports that the agency is considering a proposal to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit.

Researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California have confirmed that NASA is mulling over their plan to build a robotic spacecraft to grab a small asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit. The mission would cost about $2.6 billion – slightly more than NASA's Curiosity Mars rover – and could be completed by the 2020s.